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Adventurers and explorers, Travel and geography, Asian travel and geography
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The author recounts her expedition into the forests of Borneo in search of a reclusive primatologist, who has devoted her…
life to protecting orphaned orangutans. Describes the beauty of the island, the local society, and the despoilment of natural resources through poaching, deforestation, and misguided ecotourism. 1998.
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Health and medicine, Medicine
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This guide to caring for the female heart discusses the role estrogen may play in preventing coronary artery disease (CAD)…
in premenopausal women. The authors offer recommendations for preventing CAD and other things that can "go wrong," presenting information on exercise, diet, medications, and stress. The changes of the heart during pregnancy are also discussed. 1992.
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Medicine, Science and technology
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The author reveals a radical new biological paradigm - that on our most fundamental level, the human mind and body…
are not distinct and separate from their environment, but a pulsating power constantly interacting with this vast energy sea. There may be such a thing as a life force. 2002.
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Biography, Adventurers and explorers, Canadian non-fiction, Canadian authors (Non-fiction)
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Born in Connecticut in 1739, Peter Pond volunteered for the colonial Connecticut and New York regiments that fought against the…
French for control of North America. Soon after, drawn by the promise of wealth and adventure, Pond paddled into the wild territory of the Indians to the west with only a canoe, some trade goods and a few French Canadians to aid him. What he returned with is the stuff of legend. 2014.
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Medicine, Psychology, Self help
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A cancer survivor and psychotherapist addresses how individuals can best respond with sensitivity and compassion to a sick friend or…
relative. Demonstrates making a potentially awkward situation more comfortable through effective speech and behaviour. Includes suggestions for talking to children about illness. 2004.
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Canadian non-fiction, Medicine, Philosophy, Science and technology
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As science and technology continue to advance, many moral and ethical questions begin to arise. The author, a leading authority…
on medicine, ethics and law, presents an examination of the various ethical concerns human society is currently facing. Addressing everything from cloning to genetically modified foods, this volume illuminates some of the most controversial and pressing issues of our time.
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Adventure and exploration, Biography, Adventurers and explorers, Sports and games
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At the age of 50, the author, one of the world's best-known mountaineers, reached the summit of Mount Everest in…
1985 after four attempts. He chronicles his Everest expeditions and the ascent of Mount Vinson in the Antarctic with Frank Wells. 1987.
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Preston chronicles human encounters with the Marburg and Ebola viruses, among the most lethal viruses known. He discusses the effects…
of the viruses on people infected with them, and suggests that they have emerged as the world's jungles and rain forests have been destroyed. He also describes outbreaks of the viruses, particularly an outbreak of a strain of Ebola among monkeys imported to the United States, and how the outbreak was contained. Strong language and explicit descriptions of violence. 1994.
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Canadian non-fiction, Health and medicine, Medicine
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A history of medical advances made in the United States from 1887 to the present, and the relationship among academia,…
industry and government that made these advances possible. 1987. Uniform title: Health century (television program)
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Canadian non-fiction, Medicine, Travel and geography
Human-narrated audio, Automated braille
Sylvia Fraser recounts her journey to Peru to learn about shamans and ancient practices. The centre of her journey revolves…
around learning about ayahuasca, a plant medicine that is said to transport a person from this plane of reality into another one. 2003.
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Adventurers and explorers, Sports biography, Sports and games
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A chilling record by a participant in the 1967 Wilcox Mount McKinley expedition, from which only five of the 12 climbers returned. 1973.
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Biography, Science and medicine biography, Canadian non-fiction, Health and medicine, Medicine
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The discovery of insulin in 1922 was one of the most significant medical breakthroughs of the century and one of…
the most controversial. Bliss examines the research of, and the rivalry within, the team of Banting, Best, Collip, and Macleod.
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Medicine
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In August 1998, a doctor named Nancy Olivieri, working with young people who suffered from a rare blood disorder, discovered…
serious problems with an experimental drug manufactured by Apotex. Though her research contract required her to remain silent, she decided she had no choice but to warn the patients involved in the trials, while Apotex reacted by cancelling her research and slamming her reputation. The Olivieri affair spawned two inquiries and multiple lawsuits, which revealed the weaknesses in medical research as well as a story of scientific rivalry and revenge. Some strong language. 2005.
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Adventure and exploration, Adventurers and explorers, Travel and geography
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In 1860, an eccentric Irish police officer named Robert O'Hara Burke set out to Melbourne at the head of the…
most ambitious expedition of his age. Up until this point Australia had remained a truly dark continent, but times were changing. On 20 August Burke and his team of eighteen men made a confident start - journeying north towards the Gulf of Carpentaria. Accompanied by William Wills, a shy English scientist, he was prepared to risk everything to cross the continent. Meanwhile, John McDouall Stuart, a dour Scotsman with a fondness for the bottle, was already trekking north from Adelaide. The race was on. 2003.
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Health and medicine, Medicine
Human-narrated audio
The author presents case studies of schizophrenic patients, and aims to make madness and the process of going mad comprehensible. He also offers an existential analysis of personal alienation. 1990.
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Health and medicine, Medicine
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A consumers' guide to homeopathy, it reveals the key principles and history of homeopathy, and explains how we are categorized…
into "constitutional" types according to our physical and emotional characteristics. Including a self-assessment questionnaire, an index of remedies, and ailment charts showing which remedies to take for everyday health problems such as insomnia, anxiety, eczema, and toothaches. 1995.
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Medicine, Animals and wildlife
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All the big killer diseases - measles, tuberculosis, and smallpox - have come to us from animals and have decided…
they like us better. Other diseases, such as rabies, poker players' pneumonia, and dum-dum fever, visit us now and then, but they really prefer their animal homes, while "emerging" diseases, like mad cow disease, SARS, and avian flu, have dropped in to check us out; but we don't know whether they will take up permanent residence or if they are just passing through. Presents the various groups of animal diseases, explains what it is about our lifestyle and our environment that encourages them to visit, and offers suggestions for how to keep them at bay. 2007.
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Health and medicine, Medicine
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Charles Graeber details the discovery of cancer's secret weakness, and how a new generation of scientists finally cracked the code…
on how the human immune system can fight and beat the disease. 2018.
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Health and medicine, Medicine
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Earle Dickson and his new bride Josephine begin their lives together. The end. (Not really. There's more.) Josephine has a…
proclivity for injuring herself. Earle attaches cotton to long strips of adhesive tape, telling Josephine to cut off a length when she needs one. Since Earle works as a cotton buyer at Johnson and Johnson, he shares his idea. They're a big hit. The end. (Again, not really!) After a few false starts (much like the hilarious "the end"s in this story), the Band-Aid is developed and becomes a massive hit. The end. (Really.). Grades K-3. 2018.
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Health and medicine, Medicine
Human-narrated audio
In this course, Howard University professor John K. Young takes audiences through the microscope on a journey of discovery into…
the world of cells and tissues, where a complex scheme of activity is taking place all the time, literally just beneath the surface. 2007.